"That is heresy, Ms. Boudreaux," snorted Torquemada. "Now I am feeling extraordinarily zealous about bringing you to trial for witchcraft."

"Ooooooo, mais no!!!" cried Chlotilde. "My mama sent me to Ursuline Academy down dare in New Orleans! We take mass down dare by St. Odo of Cluny."

"I'm sorry, Madedemoiselle Chlotilde, but you spoke evil of St. Denis," said Torquemada.

Suddenly, the conquistidor whipped out an iron maiden from behind his back. "When I'm not handing out blankets infected with the pox in the America's," he said. "I practice using this old girl for a hobby."

As Torquemada opened the iron maiden, it emitted a groan and then a woman's voice, crying "Please let me out! Please, I'm ready to repent!"

Torquemada glared at the conquistador, who had been adjusting his panties, which had a tendency to slide up and get bunched up in his buttcrack. "I thought you said you cleaned this out before we left. Winona's still in there, you dolt!"

The conquistador squinted into the opening. "I thought it was empty. I'm sorry, I just hefted the thing and it felt empty. I don't think Ms. Ryder weighs very much. In point of fact, and I mean no disrespect, but I don't think the iron maiden is quite as effective a tool of punishment on one of those skinny movie stars."

"The impertinence!" bellowed Torquemada.

"Let me out," cried Winona. "I'm really sorry about those blouses! I just wanted to check the color in outdoor light!"

The conquistador pried the iron maiden farther open. "Look, the spikes haven't even penetrated her flesh. She might have a bit of bruising at the very worst...."

"She said she's ready to repent," said Torquemada, "so it worked well enough! Let's yank her out of there and have her...."

"Pardon the interruption", said the eye-rollingly obnoxious intruder. He went on to proclaim ...

"While I do not think we/society can end racism (there will always be individuals who are racist), I'm 100% certain that we/society can spread an opposite to it.

Similarly we can't end hatred, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't spread love.

LEARN is a powerful word. To me and I think most people, it means acquire knowledge. So the message/symbol that you see means acquire knowledge of ending racism, acquire knowledge of end-broken-hearts. The experts always say, the best way to handle blah, blah, blah, is through education. I can't imagine a more memorable, educated message when it comes to ending racism than LEARN.

While I realize there's no one message ALL people can agree upon.... the truth is, if a person REALLLLY wants to end racism, they should have no problem saying Lets End All Racism Now."